Site de download legal de musicas cobra U$0,02 por Mb

Para os fanaticos por mp3, o site russo allofmp3.com disponibiliza o download de musicas pela quantia de U$0,02 /Mb.

Diversas opções de compressão estão disponiveis e como o usuario paga por Mb baixado as musicas podem variar de preço. O pagamento pode ser feito utilizando cartões de crédito internacionais ou o conhecido sistema de pagamento Paypal de propriedade do site americano de leilões eBay. Um sistema de pagamento por cartão pré-pago tambem esta disponível chamado XRost.

Uma recente investigação a respeito da legalidade desse site estava em andamento pois seria praticamente "inviável" uma empresa que venda musicas a esse preço, porém com a recente publicação de uma agencia de noticias russa, a legalidade do site foi comprovada e a ação removida.

Maiores duvidas sao respondidas nesse site.

Vendas de players de audio portatil devem crescer 57%

Primeira noticia em português.....

As vendas de tocadores portáteis de música digital devem crescer 57% este ano depois de terem dobrado em 2004. É o que aponta o resultado de uma pesquisa divulgada pelo grupo isuppli nesta terça-feira. Segundo o mesmo levantamento, nos próximos cinco anos, a demanda por MP3 players deve se expandir para 132 milhões de unidades em 2009 dos 36,8 milhões agora em 2004, dos quais 116% são responsabilidade do famoso iPod, o mp3 player da Apple.

One more company joins Blu-Ray ... Apple...

"The New York Times is reporting that Apple has joined the Blu-ray Disc Association, and will use Blu-ray in upcoming versions of iMovie and Final Cut. The move puts Apple among Sony, Matsushita, Dell, HP and Walt Disney in supporting Blu-ray. Apple's support confirms Blu-ray's future dominance on the desktop, but the division in Hollywood and notebook manufacturers between the two HD videodiscs will ensure the bona fide format war we were all secretly pining for."

Blu-ray Disc is a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by a group of leading consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). One single-layer Blu-ray Disc can hold about 25GB or almost two hours of HDTV audio and video, and the dual-layer disc can hold approximately 50GB.

The companies behind the Blu-Ray Disc Association are Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM Studios and in 2004, 20th Century Fox announced that it was joining the BDA.

The primary rival to Blu-ray is HD-DVD, championed by Toshiba and NEC Corporation. This has a lower data density, but could (in principle) benefit from lower manufacturing costs for both the drive units as well as the pre-recorded/recordable media.

Flat Panel Monitors/TV´s differences

Tom´s Hardware has an article describing the differences in technologies with advantages and disadvantages of the two flat panel displays available.

Plasma and LCD displays are around for some time and with it´s prices dropping soon they will be in your house too.

Check out this link to the article.

The Largest LCD Screen

"Samsung Electronics has developed the world's largest liquid crystal display panel. This 82-inch TFT-LCD is 17 inches larger than LCD flat panel previously developed by Sharp. This development challenges plasma display panels in this market area. This full HD image quality (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) TFT-LCD panel was developed at the company's new production complex in Tangjeong, Korea. The soon-to-be operational 7th-generation production facility uses glass substrates that measure 1.87m x 2.20m."

Old films remastered to DVD...

Good to see that tha great studios are working to preserve the history.....

"Slate is running an interesting article on the process involved in Warner Brothers remastering films, the quality of the films being compared to the Criterion Collection discs. Going back to the original technicolor negatives, preserved in temperature-controlled rooms, the transfer begins with a 4,000 line scan, followed by digital alignment of each color." From the article: "In some ways, these DVDs have finer color and detail than even the original film prints. In the old days, it was difficult to align those three strips perfectly. The task became still harder years later, when the films were reissued, because the negatives had stretched or shrunk over time. If you need all three strips to get the right color, and you can't line the strips up precisely, then the colors and the sharpness are going to be a bit off."

My new blog....

Hi,

this is my new Blog, here i´ll put some news and information that I collect all around the internet. Various themes will be posted here ... most of them about tech stuff...

Some of my interest themes that I will Dig are: tech news, gadgets, computer generated graphics (2d, 3d), movies, maybe games and simulation stuff....

Well... thanks for visiting my site for the first time and check-out from time to time.... and if you have some minutes... leave me a comment too .... it will help me filter the stuff I post here. Of course you can leave your comment in portuguese or english....

Carlos E.